Tag: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we’re going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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There’s this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Change takes courage.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I think – I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn’t mean that we threaten people’s lives.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez